⚠️ BETA — This is a cross-covenant intersectional PI brief. Content draws from international GR/CO + adjacent data where domestic government documents are sparse. NGO contributions welcome.

PI ID

PI-17

Platform

CRPD Disability Rights

Status

draft

Agencies

[mohw_sf, mohw_pa, moi_dgo, moj_doh]

Treaty Articles

[A6, A16, A25]

General Recom/Cmt

Problem Tags

[INTERSECTIONAL, DATA_GAP, UNFULFILLED_GR]

Intl Comparison

[JP, KR, UK, AU]

Last Updated

2026-05-05

PI-17: Disabled Women DV — Gender × Disability Intersection

⚠️ BETA — Cross-covenant structural blind-spot PI (added in Wave 127)

1. Structural Finding (platform-quantified evidence)

Cross-covenant comparison shows this issue is a complete structural blind spot in Taiwan's government documents:

Platform keyword match	Segment count
CEDAW gov't documents — "Domestic violence"	459 segments
CRC gov't documents — "Domestic violence"	515 segments
CRPD gov't documents — "Domestic violence"	1 segment
CRPD gov't documents — "Disabled women × Violence" co-occurrence	0 segments

→ Government CRPD discourse barely mentions disabled women's intersectional violence,

even though general DV discourse is rich elsewhere — disability framework never picks it up.

2. International Evidence (filling the domestic discourse vacuum)

CEDAW GR-19 (1992) + GR-35 (2017)

States Parties must take all appropriate measures to eliminate violence against women,

with particular attention to forms of violence affecting disabled women (GR-19 §6).

CRPD §6 + §16

§6: "Recognize that women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination"

§16: "Take all appropriate measures to protect persons with disabilities... from all forms of exploitation, violence and abuse, including their gender-based aspects"

CRPD GC-3 (Women with Disabilities, 2016)

§32-37 dedicated to violence against disabled women; calls for disability-disaggregated DV statistics.

International data benchmarks

UN Women + UNFPA (2018): Disabled women face 2-4× the violence risk of non-disabled women
EU FRA (2014, 28-country survey): 12-month physical/sexual/psychological violence rate among disabled women: 34% (vs 19% general female population)
Australia (2016): Disabled women experience violence at double the rate of non-disabled women in any 12-month window

3. Adjacent Taiwan signals (indirect evidence)

While CRPD documents have no direct discussion, scale can be estimated from adjacent data:

MOHW statistics: nationwide DV reports exceed 160,000/year (2023), but no disability flag
Ministry of Interior disabled population ≈ 1.2 million (women ~500,000)
Estimating with EU FRA's 34% rate: Taiwan disabled women face DV exposure of ~170,000 person-events / 12 months

(500k × 34% ≈ 170k, applying 2024 ratios)

But this estimate has never entered government CRPD discourse

4. Four-dimensional action plan

📊 Data sources to collect

MOHW Bureau of Protective Services 113 hotline raw data — add disability flag
MOJ Agency of Corrections sexual violence — victim disability disaggregation
NIA marriage-migrant DV — disabled subgroup
Per-county shelter statistics — disability accessibility / capacity

👥 Interviews to conduct

Disabled women survivors (post-environment, 5-10 subjects, gender-aware interviewers)
Shelter social workers — accessibility / disability-type capacity
DV prevention center supervisors — how disability status affects assessment flow
Disabled women's self-help groups (e.g., League of Welfare gender working group)

📨 Freedom-of-information requests

MOHW: nationwide 113 case statistics by disability disaggregation (2017-2024)
Judicial Yuan: DV protection order applicants — disability status
County social affairs offices: shelter accessibility evaluation / disabled women placement
MOI: NPA 110 emergency-call system — disability disaggregation

🌐 Relevant international CO / GR

CEDAW GR-19 (1992) — violence + special risk to disabled women
CEDAW GR-35 (2017) — gender violence update; §28 lists disabled women as vulnerable subgroup
CRPD §6 (women with disabilities)
CRPD §16 (freedom from violence)
CRPD GC-3 (2016) — Women with Disabilities GC, §32-37 on violence
CEDAW GR-39 (2022) — indigenous women including disabled indigenous women
CRC §19 (children's freedom from violence) + CRC GC-13: disabled female children

5. Cross-covenant joint advocacy entry point

This PI is the top candidate for cross-committee Joint List of Issues:

CEDAW + CRPD Committees coordinate questions in the List of Issues stage
Demand Taiwan's 5th CEDAW report (2026-27) and 3rd CRPD report (planned 2027) cross-reference each other with disabled-women DV chapters
Mandate disability-disaggregated 113 hotline statistics

6. Current platform evidence

passages: 0 (zero direct gov't document hits)

linked_kw: 身障女性 / 身心障礙婦女 / 障礙女性 / 身心障礙者女性 / 身障家暴 / 身心障礙者受暴 / 障礙女性受暴 / 身障性侵

0 passages itself = direct evidence of "government silence."

7. Related links

Cross-covenant intersectional topics: intersectional-topics-en.html
D-grade research TODO: d-grade-research-todo-en.html
Chinese version of this brief: PI-17.html
CEDAW DV total discourse: cedaw.taiwanmommies.org